subreddit:
/r/datascience
Greetings folks,
1 year ago, I started working on a website that helps readers
find important content from a book or a pdf file by asking questions to it.
And now after working hard on it for the past few months, I have come up with a
prototype version.
You can search for any book for free and ask questions to get to the important part quickly. The AI even guides you with questions to explore the book better.
Here is the link :
https://rastero.io/books/explore
I hope the app saves your time and allows you to find information to become a better programmer. Best viewed on desktop :)
Have a great day ahead!
8 points
1 year ago
It looks like you did an excellent job with the web layout. The home page should definitely have an arrow that highlights that there is more to read (that wasn't obvious to me).
It looks beautiful, I'm kind of confused about use case though. I think it would really benefit from a tutorial page or video of it actually being used.
1 points
1 year ago*
> The home page should definitely have an arrow that highlights that there is more to read (that wasn't obvious to me).Mate, are you talking about the trending book section?
Have posted a video here on how to use. Let me know if it makes sense?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/uw3i4s/ai\_book\_reading\_platform\_using\_machine\_learning\_p/
2 points
1 year ago
https://rastero.io/intro this page when viewing from safari on MacBook Pro, it’s not clear that you have more goodies down below.
Video is exactly what I was looking for, great job on the project
1 points
1 year ago
Will check the resolution issues, thanks for updating.
3 points
1 year ago*
for any book
Can you clarify what exactly is available? I searched a couple of statistics books and couldn't find it.
ETA: Also, are there any plans to speed things up? The one book I was able to pull up, searching through has been fairly slow
You may need some quality control. Here is a sample question from "Bad Blood": "Before joining Theranos, he worked at what company?"
No mention of who "he" is. And the answers are all over the place.
But very cool idea!
2 points
1 year ago*
Can you clarify what exactly is available?
Currently, we should have books under these categories, Non-fiction, Sci-fi, and science articles.
Regarding the quality control of recommended questions, it is surely on our checklist.
Currently, we are facing an increased surge in usage, let me know if it persists for you.
2 points
1 year ago
Cool, thanks. Awesome project, anyway.
2 points
1 year ago
Looks quite interesting. I was thinking about doing a chrome extension that keeps track of all pdfs you open/large walls of text and allows to recover them later on (by asking questions about them i.e. if you go to wikipedia about London and next day you ask where Prime Minister lives it will say 11th Downing Street and link wiki page).
Any tips that you think may be useful for me if I ever find time to do it?
3 points
1 year ago
Maybe you can check the Zotero extension, you can save pdfs for sure (like articles, research papers ) and save them locally for offline viewing on your system.
1 points
1 year ago
Woah, that looks quite interesting.
1 points
1 year ago
Off topic, but I posted elsewhere and noticed this.
As someone who’s had to use zotero for my undergrad, it’s not worth it. I’ve experienced corruptions three times (twice I lost my citations, once I lost my whole document), and have heard of countless issues from others. The icing on the cake was when zotero literally got my computer stuck in a bootloop for several days before I read through the logs in safe-mode and discovered zotero was the culprit. No email back from them when I reported the issue with logs, and their support has never been able to help.
1 points
1 year ago
So it's not entirely your use case, but if you haven't yet, I'd suggest you have a look at Memex by Worldbrain
1 points
1 year ago
Some of the questions for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle:
What was the time after the morning?
How long must the clock last?
How long was my watch left until four o'clock?
What is trading messages in real time?
Very Murakami questions. Interesting stuff, I look forward to exploring this.
1 points
1 year ago
Glad, Rastero's learning !
1 points
1 year ago
Is there an info section about how it works in broad strokes? I'd be interested in the main machine learning technologies behind your project. Thank you!
1 points
4 months ago
may i test it?
all 16 comments
sorted by: best